[HTML][HTML] The effectiveness of national early warning score, quick sequential organ failure assessment, Charlson comorbidity index, and elixhauser comorbidity index …

C Akman, O Bardakçı, M Daş, G Akdur, O Akdur - Cureus, 2022 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Introduction: As the mortality rate in coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) patients older
than 65 years is considerable, evaluation of in-hospital mortality is crucial. This study aimed …

COVID-19 and aging: Identifying measures of severity

MT Neves, LV de Matos, AC Vasques… - SAGE Open …, 2021 - journals.sagepub.com
Introduction: We aimed to compare clinical features of older age group and young and
middle-aged patients with COVID-19 and analyze mortality predictors. Methods …

Mortality risk factors in a Spanish cohort of oldest-old patients hospitalized with COVID-19 in an acute geriatric unit: the OCTA-COVID study

I Lozano-Montoya, M Quezada-Feijoo… - European geriatric …, 2021 - Springer
Purpose To determine predictors of in-hospital mortality related to COVID-19 in oldest-old
patients. Design Single-center observational study. Setting and participants Patients≥ 75 …

The Multidimensional Prognostic Index (MPI) for the prognostic stratification of hospitalized older patients with COVID-19: a prospective multicenter observational …

C Custodero, A Cella, N Veronese, M Azzini… - Geriatric …, 2020 - pagepressjournals.org
The emergent coronavirus-19 disease (COVID-19) pandemic posed and still poses serious
issues in the management of the inpatients and in the resource allocation, in particular for …

The real impact of age on mortality in critically ill COVID-19 patients

A Bakakos, E Koukaki, S Ampelioti, I Ioannidou… - Journal of Personalized …, 2023 - mdpi.com
Objective: The impact of severe infection from COVID-19 and the resulting need for life
support in an ICU environment is a fact that caused immense pressure in healthcare …

[HTML][HTML] A simplified comorbidity evaluation predicting clinical outcomes among patients with coronavirus disease 2019

JJ Kirby, S Shaikh, DP Bryant, AF Ho… - Journal of Clinical …, 2021 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Background Patients with coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) have shown a range of
clinical outcomes. Previous studies have reported that patient comorbidities are predictive of …

Clinical characteristics predicting mortality risk in hospitalized geriatric patients with COVID-19 pneumonia: a retrospective study.

E Gulec-Balbay, MM Altundal, MK Kaypak… - Clinical …, 2022 - search.ebscohost.com
Abstract Background: Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) is a global pandemic caused
by severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2). Geriatric patients with …

Death risk stratification in elderly patients with covid-19. A comparative cohort study in nursing homes outbreaks

M Bernabeu-Wittel, JE Ternero-Vega… - Archives of gerontology …, 2020 - Elsevier
Elderly people are more severely affected by COVID-19. Nevertheless scarce information
about specific prognostic scores for this population is available. The main objective was to …

A fuller picture of COVID-19 prognosis: the added value of vulnerability measures to predict mortality in hospitalised older adults

MJR Aliberti, KE Covinsky, FB Garcez, AK Smith… - Age and …, 2021 - academic.oup.com
Background Although coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) disproportionally affects older
adults, the use of conventional triage tools in acute care settings ignores the key aspects of …

[HTML][HTML] Frailty, comorbidity, and associations with in-hospital mortality in older COVID-19 patients: exploratory study of administrative data

J Heyl, F Hardy, K Tucker, A Hopper… - Interactive Journal of …, 2022 - i-jmr.org
Background: Older adults have worse outcomes following hospitalization with COVID-19,
but within this group there is substantial variation. Although frailty and comorbidity are key …